Richard Gameson specialises in the history of the book from Antiquity to the Renaissance, and in medieval art. He has published over ninety studies on medieval manuscripts, book collections, art and cultural history, including The Old Library (1988), The Early Medieval Bible (1994), The Role of Art in the late Anglo-Saxon Church (1995), The study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997) The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (1999), Augustine of Canterbury and the Conversion of England (1999), The Scribe Speaks: colophons in early English Manuscripts (2002), Codex Aureus: an eighth-century gospel book (2001-2), The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral (2008), Manuscript Treasures of Durham Cathedral (2010), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain volume I: c. 400-1100 (2012), and From Holy Island to Durham: the contexts and meanings of the Lindisfarne Gospels (2013). This last accompanied the exhibition, 'Lindisfarne Gospels Durham', held at Palace Green Library, Durham, from July-September 2013, for which he was academic curator. He is completing a catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Trinity College, Oxford, and is working on a catalogue of the manuscript collection of Durham Cathedral. As part of a team with Professor Andy Beeby of the Department of Chemistry, Durham, and Dr Catherine Nicholson of Northumbria University, he investigates by non-destructive scientific means the nature and use of medieval illuminators' pigments. He would welcome enquiries from anyone wishing to pursue advanced work in the fields of manuscripts and books, libraries and collections, illumination and decoration.

Chapter in book

Gameson, Richard (2015). History of the Manuscript to the Reformation. In The St Cuthbert Gospel: studies on the Insular Manuscripts of the Gospel of John. Breay, C & Meehan, B British Library. 129-136.

. (1999). The Earliest Books of Christian Kent. In St Augustine of Canterbury and the Conversion of England. R. Gameson 313-73.

. (1998). English Book Collections in the Late Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries: Symeon's Durham and its Context. In Symeon of Durham: historian of Durham and the North. D. Rollason Stamford: 230-53.

. (1997). The Gospels of Margaret of Scotland and the Literacy of an Early Medieval Queen. In Women and The Book. L. Smith & J. Taylor London: 148-71.

. (1997). The Origin, Art and Message of the Bayeux Tapestry. In The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry. R. Gameson 157-211.

. (1996). Book Production and Decoration at Worcester in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. In St Oswald: life and influence. N. Brooks & C. Cubitt Leicester: 194-244.

. (1996). Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament and the Discovery of the Individual in Old English Verse. In Doubt Wisely: essays presented to E. G. Stanley. J. Toswell and E. Tyler [with F. Gameson]. London: 457-74.

. (1995). English Manuscript Art in the Late Eleventh Century: Canterbury and its Context. In Canterbury and the Norman Conquest. R. Eales & R. Sharpe London: 95-144.

. (1994). The Royal 1 B. vii Gospels and English Book Production in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries. In The Early Medieval Bible. R. Gameson 24-52.

. (1992). Manuscript Art at Christ Church, Canterbury, in the Generation after St Dunstan’ in St Dunstan, his life, times and cult. In N. Ramsay et al Woodbridge: 187-220.

Edited book

Gameson, Richard (2012). The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain volume I, c. 400-1100. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Cambridge University Press.

(2007). Treasures of Durham University Library. Third Millennium and Durham University.

(co-edited with H. Leyser) (2001). Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press.

(1999). Augustine of Canterbury and the Conversion of England. Sutton.

(1997). The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer.

(1994). The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use. Cambridge University Press.